Notes to self

Landing page blueprint

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:25:18 +0800

Landing page blueprint

Make MAMP Pro show directory on localhost

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:29:48 +0800

Problem: I kept getting “You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”

Solution: In MAMP Pro go to Hosts > Advanced and check “Indexes”. Restart server.

IE:hover problem solution

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:15:13 +0800

For some reason when you hover over a transparent background in IE, it considers the mouse to not be in the dom object (or in this case, the span) anymore, but instead in the element below it and calls the mouse out event.

Sneak: Fixing the background 'bleed'

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:43:28 +0800

Sneak: Fixing the background 'bleed':

I recently came up against an issue in Safari where the background colour of an element seemed to ‘bleed’ through the edge of the corners when applying both borders and a border-radius (see the image above). After seeing David Cole tweet about the same issue I resolved to find a solution,…

Wordpress. Template pages not showing in dropdown list

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:10:55 +0800

Wordpress. Template pages not showing in dropdown list:

One fix to this dropdown problem - it works for me - in either pages and authors name in write panel is to “jog” the system by changing your custom theme to default theme and FTP upload the page templates you made in original theme to default theme folder.

Go to Pags > Add New and check if dropdown for page template is there. If you see it there, then system’s been “jogged”. Change theme back to your custom theme and in all probability the page template dropdown is there.

If not, go change theme to classic theme and FTP upload your page templates there and check for the dropdown in Pages > Add New. Again, if you see it then change theme back to custom theme.

"Always put in left: 0 and top: 0 when using positioning. It will save you from many IE-related..."

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:16:39 +0800

“Always put in left: 0 and top: 0 when using positioning. It will save you from many IE-related headaches.”

How to get into MODx when your blocked or lost your password. « Web by Booth

Sun, 30 May 2010 16:46:16 +0800

How to get into MODx when your blocked or lost your password. « Web by Booth

jQuery execution after image load

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:16:11 +0800

jQuery execution after image load:

If you need to run JavaScript that’s based on some attribute of a loaded image (e.g. height or width), use a callback with$(window).load() instead of $(document).ready().

So you need a typeface (via i.imgur.com)

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:43:24 +0800

So you need a typeface (via i.imgur.com)

GoDaddy - Password Protecting a Directory in Your Shared Hosting Account

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:04:15 +0800

GoDaddy - Password Protecting a Directory in Your Shared Hosting Account:

Because directly editing .htaccess and .htpasswd files on GoDaddy is a pain.

Child and Sibling Selectors

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:15:23 +0800

Child and Sibling Selectors:

Well visualised ul > li, p + p, and p ~ p.

"One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a..."

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:02:50 +0800

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”

- From a speech to environmentalists in Missoula, Montana in 1978 and in Colorado, which was published in High Country News in the 1970s or early 1980s under the title “Joy, Shipmates, Joy.”, as quoted in Saving Nature’s Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity (1994) by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, p. 338. (via justinthomaskay) (via viafrank)

Styling

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:39:04 +0800

The default dotted line underneath an <abbr> element (in among others Firefox) is a dotted border. So to get rid of it:


abbr {
  border-bottom: none;
}

Resetting Your Password « WordPress Codex

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:49:23 +0800

Resetting Your Password « WordPress Codex:

When you have access to the mySQL database through phpAdmin, but not the normal Wordpress admin login.

DiW Theme Playground

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:52:37 +0800

DiW Theme Playground :

Thingy with html5 in wordpress

Removing info bubble from google maps

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:05:40 +0800

Removing info bubble from google maps:

Add iwloc=near& to hide the bubble.

Safari CSS hack redux | theMechanism

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:28:00 +0800

Safari CSS hack redux | theMechanism:

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) { /* Safari 3.0 and Chrome rules here */ }

IE7 png ugly black border

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:20:47 +0800

IE7 png ugly black border:

Set background colour did it for me (this time).

"In the Save for Web dialog, cllick on Image Size (in the bottom right corner): select “Clip to..."

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:25:29 +0800

“In the Save for Web dialog, cllick on Image Size (in the bottom right corner): select “Clip to Artboard” and hit Apply.”

- Cropping for “save for web” in Illustrator CS4

Logitech MX Revolution & OS X

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:26:16 +0800

Logitech MX Revolution & OS X:

Use SteerMouse instead of Logitechs shitty “Control Center” drivers/settings. Because it keeps forgetting the settings and I have to set them over and over again.